Developer Tools Startups

Layar/Blippar provides tools for creating augmented and extended reality experiences, offering features such as surface tracking, image recognition, face tracking, and 3D model support, with or without code. It serves brands and WebAR developers building interactive immersive experiences.

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Layup builds AI-powered automation software that guides users and acts on their behalf within complex applications, reducing adoption friction and support needs. The product targets software companies and their end-users across enterprise and consumer applications.

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Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity investment firm that makes $50 million to $400 million minority and buyout investments in private and public technology companies. It leverages a network of limited partners who are industry veterans to support its portfolio companies.

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LeadDev is a media and events company producing content, conference talks, panels, and research reports on engineering leadership. It serves engineering managers, staff and principal engineers, and directors/VPs/CTOs, and runs the LDX3 festival in New York.

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Lean Solutions Group is a solutions provider that combines skilled human operators with AI-powered automation to handle business operations including scheduling, customer support, and back-office tasks. The company serves clients across industries to optimize workflows and reduce operational costs.

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Leantime is an open-source project management system that allows users to install and run the software on their own servers. It provides task management, timeline/milestone views, time tracking, and reporting features for teams managing projects.

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LeanXcale is a SQL database designed for real-time analytics and scalable operational workloads with linear horizontal scalability from single servers to hundreds of nodes. The database serves enterprises and developers requiring high-ingestion, batch processing, and real-time aggregation capabilities.

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Leaping identifies the underlying causes of software bugs and automatically generates code fixes that have been tested, helping companies reduce the cost and customer impact of defects.

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Leen builds developer tools for security teams to improve their workflow and capabilities. The company aims to become a leading devtools provider focused specifically on the security market.

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Lekko built dynamic software configuration tools that let companies change application behavior in code without rebuilds or feature-flag issues, based on a system its team developed at Uber and Meta. The company and its engineering team have been acquired by Rippling.

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Leonardo Mattar is an independent visual designer and front-end developer who builds custom websites for clients using Webflow.

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Lerner Solutions provides IT infrastructure design, implementation, and support services for businesses of varying sizes. The company serves as a managed IT partner for companies across sectors including hospitality, retail, construction, and fitness, helping them maintain reliable systems and scale operations.

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Leto provides an IPFS gateway that serves content to end-users while generating anonymous, open analytics on how IPFS objects are requested across the network. It offers a dashboard and an open Analytics API for querying usage data within the IPFS ecosystem.

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Qala provides real-time, source-level data visibility for software and product development. The company serves engineers, operators, and product leaders building secure, scalable software.

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Letta is an AI research lab building self-improving digital agents that use memory-native reinforcement learning and programmatic context management to learn continuously from experience over time.

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Letta is an AI research lab building self-improving AI agents that manage memory through programmatic context management and continuous learning. The company develops foundational technology for digital agents that remember, learn, and adapt over time.

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LexIQ provides an LLM-agnostic architecture that integrates with multiple large language models and specialized models from various providers, enabling users to select and optimize their preferred models for specific use cases.

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Libretto provides open-source CLI tools, debug agents, and browser utilities for developers to build and maintain reliable web integrations. The platform targets developers and integration engineers working on web connectivity and data exchange.

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Light Table is an interactive development environment that allows programmers to edit code while it runs and integrate external content like websites and games, providing immediate visual feedback on program behavior.

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Lightbase connects to an enterprise's existing services and integrations to maintain a live map of its architecture across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, without manual bookkeeping. It helps engineering teams understand the impact of changes and surface stability and security risks before they reach production.

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Lightboard provides on-demand design services through a vetted network of experienced designers and creative professionals. The company serves teams needing additional design capacity or full design team coverage for projects.

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Nine Sixteen provides pragmatic AI consulting and advisory services from former technical founders, helping companies explore and implement AI-first product strategies. They work across product development, workflow optimization, human-in-the-loop systems, and agentic platforms to integrate AI throughout the development lifecycle.

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LightBox builds applications for Android smartphones. Its main product, Lightbox Photos, links the phone's camera to social networking services so users can capture and share images directly.

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